On April 3, 1964 Malcolm X gave a speech titled “The Ballot or the Bullet” in front of a crowd inside of Cory Methodist Church in Cleveland Ohio. The speech mainly focused on spreading his ideals of Black Nationalism to the multitude of people who listened to him. While he begins his speech by saying that he is not here to spread his religious ideals as that would only cause problems, he does still attempt to spread his political ideals: “So I say, in spreading a gospel such as black nationalism…” Malcolm X’s main ideal of Black Nationalism is more like Otto von Bismarck’s main ideal of Pan-Germanic Nationalism that it is to the main idea of Nationalism. While life in Prussia for the commoners in the 1860s was quite different than
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Bismarck spoke in front of the Lantag in Prussia to convince the German National Association (Nationalverein) of the need of military action brought in by the Prussian power system. This was mainly to establish a Prussian dominance in the newly forming German Empire. His main audience outside of this individual speech was the generalized Prussian worker, he rode the ideals of German Nationalism that began with the attempted revolution in 1848. He then used that spirit to get the Prussians to be on his side towards the unified Germany. However, his idea of a “Unified Germany” was more of a Pan-Germanic Nationalistic ideal because of his deliberate exclusion of Austria from his future vision. Malcolm X was presenting his speech in a Catholic Church and his main audience was the African Americans who weren’t rallied up about ‘human rights’ quite yet. This can be seen within, “We want freedom now, but we're not going to get it saying ‘We Shall Overcome.’ We've got to fight until we overcome.” He is speaking as the ‘we’ the African American community but he is also criticizing the use of peaceful resistance and ‘standing together’ that most Civil Rights movements were using up until that point. This leads into who Malcolm X is speaking for, I see him as speaking for the African American community for most the speech but
Bismarck spoke in front of the Lantag in Prussia to convince the German National Association (Nationalverein) of the need of military action brought in by the Prussian power system. This was mainly to establish a Prussian dominance in the newly forming German Empire. His main audience outside of this individual speech was the generalized Prussian worker, he rode the ideals of German Nationalism that began with the attempted revolution in 1848. He then used that spirit to get the Prussians to be on his side towards the unified Germany. However, his idea of a “Unified Germany” was more of a Pan-Germanic Nationalistic ideal because of his deliberate exclusion of Austria from his future vision. Malcolm X was presenting his speech in a Catholic Church and his main audience was the African Americans who weren’t rallied up about ‘human rights’ quite yet. This can be seen within, “We want freedom now, but we're not going to get it saying ‘We Shall Overcome.’ We've got to fight until we overcome.” He is speaking as the ‘we’ the African American community but he is also criticizing the use of peaceful resistance and ‘standing together’ that most Civil Rights movements were using up until that point. This leads into who Malcolm X is speaking for, I see him as speaking for the African American community for most the speech but